Part of this week’s prayerful focus on Listening to God
I sit in the light and say nothing. I just am.
I just am listening.
Isn’t this prayer too?
“I had never met a group like this. Instead of a planned program for the evening…these people spent most of their time listening.
There was an occasional prayer said aloud—in no particular order around the room–but these prayer were more like outbursts of love and praise for God than thought-out petitions.
It was as though every individual in that room sensed that God was very close, and in the delight of His company wanted nothing, needed nothing, except occasionally to express the joy bubbling up inside.”
~true story of the God’s Smuggler, our current, highly recommended meal read-aloud
The Lord is my shepherd. I shall not want.
I want of nothing.
I need nothing.
For isn’t He the grace fountain who endlessly surges, gives, washes over dry bones?
Makes me too bubble up inside,
This thing called joy,
This easy duty (or is it luxury?)
Of listening: prayer.
“There is no greater proof in the world of our spiritual danger than the reluctance which most people always have and all people sometimes have to pray…
Yet prayer is nothing but desiring God to give us the greatest and best things we can have and that can make us happy.
It is a work so easy, so honorable, and to so great a purpose, that (except in the incarnation of His Son) God has never given us a greater argument of His willingness to have us saved and our unwillingness to accept it, of His goodness and our gracelessness, of His infinite condescension and our folly, than by rewarding so easy a duty with such great blessings.”
Lord, still me long enough to listen. So easy a thing, with such great blessings. Then why am I often reluctant?
Listening Today to His Word:
Related Resources: Praying through the day
Photo: light falling on our century-old bedroom door
